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As a solo/small-firm lawyer, I run DeepSeek V4 Pro fully offline for contract clause extraction, redlining and first-pass review. Privileged client documents never touch a third-party server, which matters more than raw benchmark quality for this job. It's the use case that comes up most often when people ask why go local at all - privacy for legal, medical or financial work is non-negotiable, and local models are now good enough to do real first-pass drafting and review work.
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